Archibald Prize: William Edwin Pidgeon – Mr Ray Walker
Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Allied Arts Medal – Louis Archambault
October 15 – At the Goldschmidt sale at Sotheby's in London, a version of Paul Cézanne's The Boy in the Red Vest sells at a new record price for a painting at auction.
M. C. Escher publishes his illustrated book The Regular Division of the Plane
Robert Frank publishes his photographic essay The Americans (in Paris)
Mark Rothko completes forty paintings, the "Seagram murals" (including Black on Maroon), for The Four Seasons Restaurant in New York but withdraws from the commission before they are hung there
Jean Arp retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Yves Klein, La spécialisation de la sensibilité à l’état matière première en sensibilité picturale stabilisée, Le Vide ("The Specialization of Sensibility in the Raw Material State into Stabilized Pictorial Sensibility, The Void"), Iris Clert Gallery, Paris.
Constructivist Design at the Galerie Lambert Weyl, Paris
Edmond Amateis – Polio Hall of Fame in Warm Springs, Georgia
Paul Cadmus – Night in Bologna
Jacob Epstein – sculptures
Bust of Edward Sydney Woods, Bishop of Lichfield in Lichfield Cathedral
St Michael's Victory over the Devil for Coventry Cathedral
Trades Union Congress war memorial in Congress House, London
M. C. Escher – Belvedere (lithograph)
Mathias Goeritz, Luis Barragán and Jesús Reyes Ferreira – Torres de Satélite, monument in Ciudad Satélite, Mexico
Jasper Johns – Three Flags
Morris Louis – Russet
René Magritte – The Listening Room (second version)
S. H. Raza – Paysage
Emil Schumacher – Cadmium
David Wynne – Teamwork (sculpture)
4 May – Keith Haring, American artist and social activist (d.1990).
8 September – Reiko Terashima, Japanese manga artist and illustrator.
23 October – Axel Krause, German painter and graphic artist.
5 December – Julio Galán, Mexican artist (d.2006).
January 28 – Ferenc Helbing, painter and lithographer
January 30 – Jean Crotti, painter (b. 1878)
February 13 – Georges Rouault, Fauvist and Expressionist painter and stained glass artist (b. 1871)
February 16 – Situ Qiao, painter (b. 1902)
February 26 – Yokoyama Taikan, painter
March 1 – Giacomo Balla, painter (b. 1871)
April 11 – Konstantin Yuon, painter and theatre designer (b. 1875)
May 11 – Lucien Lelong, fashion designer
August 12 – André Bauchant, painter (b. 1873)
August 22 – Ted Sears, animator
August 23 – Marlow Moss, Constructivist artist
August 24 – Paul Henry, Irish painter (b. 1876)
September 15 – Stephen Bone, English painter (b. 1904)
October 11 – Maurice de Vlaminck, Fauvist painter
November 17 – Frank Cadogan Cowper, painter and illustrator (b. 1877)
November 30 – George Hubert Wilkins, photographer
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Claire McCardell, fashion designer
Viktor Jansson, sculptor (b. 1886)
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